Alchimie De La Douleur (the Alchemy Of Sorrow) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BBBB AAB ABB A AAAA AABB CDB BBE A A FGG BBBB DDH DHE I A AJJA KAAK LLH LHH B| L'un t' claire avec son ardeur | A |
| L'autre en toi met son deuil Nature | A |
| Ce qui dit l'un S pulture | A |
| Dit l'autre Vie et splendeur | A |
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| Herm s inconnu qui m'assistes | B |
| Et qui toujours m'intimidas | B |
| Tu me rends l' gal de Midas | B |
| Le plus triste des alchimistes | B |
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| Par toi je change l'or en fer | A |
| Et le paradis en enfer | A |
| Dans le suaire des nuages | B |
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| Je d couvre un cadavre cher | A |
| Et sur les c lestes rivages | B |
| Je b tis de grands sarcophages | B |
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| The Alchemy of Sorrow | A |
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| One man lights you with his ardor | A |
| Another puts you in mourning Nature | A |
| That which says to one sepulcher | A |
| Says to another life glory | A |
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| You have always frightened me | A |
| Hermes the unknown you who help me | A |
| You make me the peer of Midas | B |
| The saddest of all alchemists | B |
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| Through you I change gold to iron | C |
| And make of paradise a hell | D |
| In the winding sheet of the clouds | B |
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| I discover a beloved corpse | B |
| And on the celestial shores | B |
| I build massive sarcophagi | E |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | A |
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| Alchemy of Sorrow | A |
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| One puts all nature into mourning | F |
| One lights her like a flaring sun | G |
| What whispers 'Burial' to the one | G |
| Cries to the other 'Life and Morning ' | - |
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| The unknown Hermes who assists | B |
| The role of Midas to reverse | B |
| And makes me by a subtle curse | B |
| The saddest of all alchemists | B |
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| By him my paradise to hell | D |
| And gold to slag is changed too well | D |
| The clouds are winding sheets and I | H |
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| Bidding some dear loved corpse farewell | D |
| Along the shore line of the sky | H |
| Erect my vast sarcophagi | E |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | I |
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| Alchimie de la douleur | A |
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| one lights thee with his flame another | A |
| puts in thee Nature all his gloom | J |
| what says to this man lo the tomb | J |
| cries life and splendour to his brother | A |
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| o mage unknown whose powers assist | K |
| my art and whom I always fear | A |
| thou makest me a Midas peer | A |
| of that most piteous alchemist | K |
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| for 'tis through thee I turn my gold | L |
| to iron and in heaven behold | L |
| my hell beneath her cloud palls I | H |
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| uncover corpses loved of old | L |
| and where the shores celestial die | H |
| I carve vast tombs against the sky | H |
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| Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks | B |
Charles Baudelaire
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